The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1887-06-07
THE RANcELEY REcIoR.
Prominent People at the Famous
Fishing crounds-The Attractions
of One of MaIne's Many Resorts.
RANGELEY LAKE HOUSE,
RANGELEY, June 4, 1887.


The travel to the Rangeley's this season
exceeds that Of any previous year. Last
Saturday there were eighty arrivals at this
point. The hotels are having all they can
take care of. The small steamers are taxed
to their utmost capacity, and all the guides
are employed. Among those soiourning at
this popular hotel today are Hon. Z. S. Coe
Of Bangor, David Pingree, Salem and J. B.
Farnum and party Of five from Woonsocket,
r. L.; B. A. Putney, Paris, France. This
party have just returned from Kenabag0 and
report the catch Of trout unequalled in their
17years experience.coming here. "The lake is
just alive with them," was the remark OF
Mr.. Cheeseboro, the veteran Of the party.
Among their catch was a four pound sal
mon. A party Of fourteen ladies and gentle
men left here for tour of the lakes, this
being the central point and one of 1.-THE most
beautiful in the whole lake region. Leaving
Rangeley on steamer Mollychunkamunk, il
is an agreeable steamboat transit down
Oquossoc Lake, eight miles, where the pano-
rama spread before ones vision is grand
combination Of lake, mountain and and for
est scenery, unsurpassed at any mountain re-
sort, reminding one Of the lines:
"God made the Country; man made the town"
And sportsmen, tourists, and artists are loud
in its praise. The pretty summer cottages
on its shores lend an additional beauty to
the scene. We pass Mingo Point
where we get a glimpse Of Dr. CARING
of Mr.. Rogers Of Boston, an appropriate
name for which would be "Tyn Y. Coed;
the unique cottage Of Mr.. Whitcomb comes
next, then the Mountain View house. one Of
the fine hotels in this region.
The next place of interest Is Lake Point,
where is the coziest Queen Anne cottage in
the lake region, the charming summer home
of II. A. Tuttle Esq, of Boston. and Gen.
George III. Harmon, Of New Haven, Conn.,,
and the beautiful views in any direction
cause one to express the wish Of the poets
'Long be it ere the tide of trade
SHAH break with harsh-resounding din
The quiet of thy banks of shade.
And hills that fold thee in"
Among those at the Greenvale House to-
day are Hon. Weston Lewis, Boston, and
Hon. J.P Baxter, wife and son, Portland,
who are just returning from Indian Reach,
where they partook of the hospitalities OF
the Oquossoc Angling Association.
At Indian Rock" the "Oquossoc Angling
Association, the creme de la creme in sport
ing circles. have built on a beautiful eleya-
ton overlooking the hilltops above the
waters of the lakes a sort of palatial camp,
or lodge, as it is termed, and Adam, In
Paradise, never saw a more romantic and
enticing place in which to weave his en-
powered cabin for the noble woman whom
he rather familiarly called his rib With
these men fishing is science, and the worm
and deep-water fishing are scorned as un-
worthy of their blood. They believe with
the poet who says.
"Tis sweet TO feel the plastic
Rod, with top and butt elastic,
Shoot the line in coils fantastic
TIN, like thistle-down, the fly
Lightly drops upon the water.
Thirsting for the finny slaughter
As angle
And dangle
Mute and sly.
Then gently shake the tackle
TIL the barbed and fatal haekle
In its tempered jaws shall shackle
Ihat old trout, so wary grown.
Now strike himi Joy ecstatic
Securing runsl leaps acrobaticl
So da1gle
All the day."
| With great fervor they describe the fe-
rocity OF the fish in his struggles with the
hook, and how, with constant windngs and
relaxatl0ns OF the reel they finally succeed
In landing the gamy six or seven pounder,
the process sometimes occupying long hour
| or more. Their stories are not told about
the primitive camp fire, but around table
whereon is served every delicacy. The
| culinary department is in charge Of one OF
| our best Boston cooks in copartnership with
| pleasant looking Oriental When learned
| who the gentlemen were who composed this
| Oquossoc Angling Association L was not
surprised at the elegant manner in which ii
| is conducted. From Boston there are Henry
| M. Bigelow, Franklin B. Daniels Edward
! Il. Floyd, Charles w. Hersey, Jerome Jones.
Weston Lewis, Lyman Nichols, Frederick
w. Payne, Augustus Richardson, Francis A.
Sawyer, John V. Spaulding, Frederick A.
| Turner, Charles G. White and William B.
| Wood. The association is limited to sixty
members, and includes number from New
York, Philadelphia and Portland.
| There were about twenty members and
guests at this elegant club house a few days
ago, and they are constantly arriving and de-
| parting, catching all the "speckled beauties"
they want to in this charming locality, 17Co
feet above the sea.
The route to reach this "Sportsman's Para
| disc fr0R the West is via rail from any point
TO Portland thence per the popular Maine
| central railroad with its fine equipments to
Pennington; change here 10 the petite Sandy
| River railroad and ride through some Of the
most picturesque scenery in Maine, through
evergreen arches, lilac and apple blossoms,
to Phillips; then you have ride per 4. A.
Rogers line of four-horse coaches twenty
ley. G. II. ii.
On, account Of the long continued wet